A Spectacled caiman, one of 14 animals seized from a home in Gatineau by police after neighbours complained to authorities.
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A Gatineau man may be facing
bylaw charges after 14 reptiles,
including several exotic varieties, were discovered by Gatineau police as they executed
a search warrant at his home
Thursday, following complaints from neighbours.
“Spectacled caimans do get
big enough to cause very, very
serious injuries,” said Matthew
Korhonen, curator of Little
Ray’s Reptile Zoo in Ottawa’s
south end, which has taken
in the haul of animals, which
included a Spectacled caiman
crocodile, which can grow to
eight feet long and weigh in at
70 to 100 pounds.
Police searched the home
Thursday after animal-control
officers were denied entry by a
24-year-old man who was later
seen leaving the home with a
large snake in his hands, police
said. Once inside, they found
the Spectacled caiman, three
boa constrictors, a 91-inch-long
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apartment, an iguana, a bearded dragon and a local variety of
snapping turtle that’s illegal to
hold in captivity.
The man potentially faces
charges under Gatineau bylaws
for possession of non-venomous reptiles that could pose a
danger, possession of exotic
reptiles not contained in a terrarium and possession of a pit
bull without a licence. The dog
has been handed over to the
SPCA. Each violation comes
with a ticket of more than
$100.
“Burmese pythons can get
big enough to hurt someone
who is small,” said Korhonen,
adding that the Spectacled caiman crocodile should not be
sold to “anybody ever.” The animals are too big and too costly
to own, he added of the Central
and South America species.
“People see a six-inch baby and
think it would be cool to own,”
he said. “They’ve never seen
a six foot one try to take your
arm off. But unfortunately it’s
really, really common.”
Korhonen said the crocodile
costs $100 and roughly 10,000
of them are living in homes
across Canada. He said he
would like to see tighter regulations around owning exotic
pets and hopes for provincial
or federal legislation of sale of
the animals.

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Two men charged

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Bail hearing set
for Brockville hitand-run accused
Two men charged after a
Sunday hit-and-run crash
outside Brockville that
killed 16-year-old Aaron Stevenson made a brief court
appearance Thursday.
Joseph Greer, 23, was
arrested by police and faces
charges including impaired
driving and committing
an indignity to a dead
body. Rusty Pearce, 21,
was charged with failing
to remain at the scene of a
collision and committing
an indignity to a dead body.
A bail hearing was set
for both men for Sept. 13 in
Brockville. JOE LOFARO/METRO
Residence searched

Cops arrest three
in drug seizure
Police arrested three Ottawa
residents and seized drugs,
replica firearms and suspected stolen property after
searching a Seguin Street
residence Tuesday.
Officers found cocaine,
crack, heroin, crystal meth
and fentanyl valued at
$17,000 and property potentially worth more than
$100,000.
Jamie Walsh, 39, faces
30 charges, including
trafficking, possession for
the purpose of trafficking,
possession of proceeds of
crime and stolen property.
Sheena LaFlamme, 28, is
charged with 13 offences,
including trafficking, possession for the purpose of
trafficking, possession of
the proceeds of crime and
stolen property. Allan Long,
51, was charged with possession and trafficking of a
Schedule I substance.
STEVE COLLINS/FOR METRO

Peter Garrow fields questions from reporters at the Ottawa Hospital on Thursday with his wife, Harriet, who is the first patient in a clinical trial using
enhanced stem cells to repair damaged muscle following a heart attack. JOE LOFARO/METRO

A Cornwall woman who survived a heart attack on July 2 is
the first person to participate
in a world-first clinical trial
testing the use of stem cells to
repair damaged heart muscle.
Clutching her husband’s
hand as she smiled for the
cameras during a press conference Thursday at the Ottawa Hospital, Harriet Garrow
seemed more nervous about
the barrage of reporters and
photographers than the unproven procedure.

Principal investigators leading the trial explained the experimental procedure involves
doctors extracting stem cells
from a patient’s blood and
enhancing them with a gene
called endothelial nitric oxide
synthase. The enhanced cells,
which are said to improve
tissue healing, are then implanted back into the patient’s
heart.
The name of the trial is
Enhanced Angiogenic Cell
Therapy — Acute Myocardial
Infarction (ENACT-AMI).
Preliminary trials on animals yielded positive results,
but this is the first time it’s being tested on humans.
“I wasn’t afraid,” said Garrow about her decision to go
through with the trial. It took
her three or four days to say
yes after consulting with her
family.
“There is a limited risk in

doing it, but she says it could
help other people,” said Harrow’s husband, Peter. “Right
away she thought about our
second son, Christian, who
had a heart attack when he
was 39.”
Harriet said she was at
home around noon on July
2 when she noticed a sudden pain under her left arm.
“I didn’t really know what it
was, it came on so quick,” she
recalled.
She suffered extensive damage to her heart even after doctors were able to open up her
blocked artery with a balloon
catheter.
ENACT-AMI is a randomized, double-blind clinical trial
so she doesn’t even know if
she received the enhanced
cells at all. One-third of the
100 eligible patients over the
next two years will receive a
placebo, another third will re-

ceive non-enhanced stem cells,
while the rest will receive the
genetically enhanced stem
cells.
“We’re very curious to
know,” said Garrow’s husband.
Dr. Christopher Glover, one
of Garrow’s doctors, said there
is limited risk for her in receiving the new treatment.
“With Mrs. Garrow, she was
left with a significant amount
of damage. We didn’t open it
fast enough or for whatever
reason her heart sustained a
significant amount of damage,” said Glover. “So the hope
is now that by delivering these
enhanced stem cells that this
will go to the area where the
heart attack occurred and actually help repair and possibly
regenerate the heart.”
Recruitment will begin at
the University of Ottawa Heart
Institute and St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.

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Teachers, province
look to move past
bitter Bill 115 battle
Negotiations loom.
Almost a year after
bill led to strikes and
cancellation of some
activities, educators are
‘hesitantly’ optimistic

Teachers protest Ontario’s Bill 115 last August. The dispute has escalated since then with the withdrawal of extracurricular
activities and rotating strikes. Torstar News Service file

Nearly a year after Ontario’s
teachers stood up against Bill
115, teachers unions and the
province are prepared for a
new round of pay negotiations
while a court case on the controversial bill looms.
“I would say that we are
hesitantly moving forward,”
said Cindy Dubué, a vicepresident with the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation representing Ottawa.
“There are still a lot of things
that we need to see changes in,”
she added.

This fall the teachers and
the province will work to hash
out details of “a more sustainable wage-negotiation model,”
said Lauren Ramey, a spokesperson for Education Minister
Liz Sandals.
“We haven’t really agreed
to a model yet. We’re still talking,” said Dubué, pointing out
that the province has “made
suggestions they plan to put
in legislation in regard to how
they’re going to negotiate” during future pay raises and labour
disputes.
Although nothing has been
decided, Dubué said it’s a big
step to be at the table at all. Last
September teachers’ unions
voted on work-to-rule strike
action after the province voted
Bill 115 into law September 11,
2012. Teachers dropped extracurricular activities from their
schedules, putting many teams
and clubs on ice for the school

year. The job action lasted into
the spring.
Bill 115, also known as the
Putting Students First Act, froze
teachers’ wages, banned strikes
for two years and prevented
them from banking sick days
they could cash out at retirement. Almost as soon as it was
passed, the law faced a court
challenge from four of the
province’s teachers unions. The
province repealed it after the
contracts were in place.
That case is set to be heard
June 16, 2014, but both sides
say they are ready to put that
dispute aside as they work on
the new deal.
“The question of the constitutional challenge is where it
belongs — in the courts and
not in the classrooms,” said
Ramey. “We have made great
efforts to renew our relationships with our education partners.” GRAHAM LANKTREE/metro

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A police officer stands near a Ford Escape as it’s placed on a flatbed tow truck and hauled away from an office
building at 200 Montcalm St. in Gatineau. CONTRIBUTED

SUV crashes into building
in attempted ATM heist
Gatineau. Similar, failed
ATM theft happened
Wednesday, shortly
before Thursday caper
A would-be thief rammed an
SUV into a Gatineau office
building early Thursday morning in an attempt to steal
money from an ATM, police say.
“Our investigation leads

us to believe the suspect’s intent was to steal the contents
of a nearby bank machine,” a
French-language news release
said of the failed 2:45 a.m. caper
at 200 Montcalm Blvd.
After failing to get any cash,
the suspect fled the scene on
foot, leaving behind a grey
2012 Ford Escape. Police said
the vehicle had been stolen
Wednesday night in Gatineau.
Police described the suspect
as a white male, five-foot-nine

to five-foot-eleven, about 180 to
200 pounds. Police say the man
was wearing sunglasses, a red
sweater, grey jeans and white
sneakers. He also wore a grey
hoodie with a patch on the left
shoulder and a blue cap with
a logo. Police say the suspect
also had a black backpack with
white stripes on its straps.
Police are asking anyone
with information to call Det.
Sgt. Jonathan Lamontagne at
819 243-2345 ext. 6230. METRO

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Lowertown children help spruce
up community youth centre
Renovation. Young
volunteers allowed
to choose paint,
counter tops, other
improvements
Graham
Lanktree

graham.lanktree@metronews.ca

Long overdue renovations
of a space where Lowertown youth can grab a
healthy snack, use computers and stay off the streets
after school were underway
Thursday morning with a
little help from local charities.
“I actually chose some of
the colours for the paint,”
said 13-year-old Stephie
Mbokoli, who drops by the
Lowertown Community Resource Youth Centre every-

12-storey apartment
ing at 201 Friel St.
with Rideau-Vanier
Mathieu Fleury and

buildalong
Coun.
other

local politicians; but the
real work started after they
left.
“The Home Depot Foun-

dation Canada has contributed $10,000 of in-kind
donations,” said Wendy
Mitchell, executive director
of the Ottawa Community
Housing Foundation, which
helps operate the space.
Workers from Ottawa Home
Depot locations got to work
painting, laying flooring
and installing a new kitchen and storage space.
Renovations will also be
made to lighting outside
the entrance, she said, to
make the space safer.
“I really like this place.
It’s where I go after school.
All my friends are here,”
said Mbokoli, who took off
time from school in the
morning to lend a hand
painting the colour “cool
jazz” on the walls.

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Para Transpo. Users split
on booking for casual trips
Para Transpo met with customers Thursday to discuss the possibility of booking casual trips
on the service up to one week
in advance.
Of Para Transpo trips, 60 per
cent are for regularly scheduled
travel, like work or recurring
appointments. The other 40 per
cent are casual, and can currently only be booked the day before. “We surveyed 21 different
transit systems across the country and more than 50 per cent of
them have a seven-day advance
booking,” A.J. Ryland, program
manager at Para Transpo, said
of the proposed change.
Opinion seems split among
riders, Ryland acknowledged,
with some keen on the added
flexibility, but others worried
last-minute rides might get
snapped up by someone else.
Barrie Ridsdale would like to
keep the booking system as is.
He estimates he’s unable to re-

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serve the trip he wants on Para
only twice a year, and thinks
the seven-day window would,
perversely, make it worse.
“I use the analogy of a Bieber
concert or some major event
occurring where tickets are
available starting tomorrow,”
he said. “Tickets will be gone
tomorrow. They won’t be available seven days from now.”
STEVE COLLINS/FOR METRO

Heron Road. Cops arrest 5th
suspect in daytime shooting
Ottawa police have arrested
and charged a fifth suspect in
a daytime shooting on Heron
Road in April.
Police responded to the
intersection of Heron Road and
Finn Court at approximately
3:40 p.m. on April 27 and reported no injuries.
Three days after the shooting they arrested Abdullah
Al-Zafiri, 20, and charged him
with attempted murder and occupying a motor vehicle with
a firearm. On May 2, police arrested two other men — Samad

N.Y. band Old Monk tells
taxman how it will be
‘Nice setup.’ Brooklyn
unit to protest new fees
by ‘playing’ Ottawa
club via Internet

Para Transpo user Barrie Ridsdale

Zeim Ali, 21, and Abdulaziz
Abdullah, 26. A fourth suspect
is believed to have fled the
country. Police said Wednesday
they charged the fifth suspect,
Mohamad Abdullah, 19, with
occupying a motor vehicle with
a firearm. He was scheduled to
appear in court that afternoon.
Anyone with information
is asked to contact the Ottawa
Police Service at 613-236-1222
ext. 5050 or Crime Stoppers at
613-233-8477 (TIPS) or toll free
at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
JOE LOFARO/metro

07

A band from Brooklyn, N.Y.,
is planning to circumvent the
Canadian government’s new
fees for temporary foreign
workers by web-streaming a
performance onto a screen at
Ottawa’s Babylon nightclub
next week.
Instead of forking out cash
for gas and a hotel room in Canada’s capital, progressive-punkrock band Old Monk is going to
set up their equipment in their
New York studio and perform
in front of a webcam on Sept. 9
while patrons in Ottawa watch
the band perform on a large
projection screen.
“It should sound great —
we’ve got a nice setup,” said
Josh Carrafa, Old Monk guitarist and vocalist. “Hopefully, it
will come out nicely,”
On Aug. 7, Jason Kenney,
minister of Employment and
Social Development Canada
(ESDC), announced sweeping
changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP),
which came into effect July 31.
But it wasn’t until the Calgary Herald reported how the
changes will affect booking
agents, promoters and bar
owners that musicians were up
in arms about the extra fees.
Each employer now has
to pay $275 per musician and

support-crew member when
applying for a Labour Market
Opinion (LMO). A LMO is needed to ensure Canadian employers look to hire Canadian workers first before looking outside
the country.
Employers also have to pay
for a $150 work permit on top
of that to a maximum of $450,
the ESDC said in an email to
Metro.
The old requirement was
a one-time entry fee of $150
per musician, which was also
capped at $450, according to
the Calgary Herald. The system
allowed promoters across Canada to share the immigration
costs.
Many have argued the changes will make it harder for
American bands to perform in
Canada.
ESDC said in an emailed
statement the changes mean
Canadian taxpayers are off the
hook for paying LMO fees.
Adam Kronick, Babylon’s
owner, called the new fees “disheartening and frustrating” for
anyone who appreciates live
music in Canada.
A petition on change.org to
challenge the TFWP changes
has more than 110,000 signatures.
When asked about the petition, ESDC had this to say: “Going forward, the Government
of Canada will consider additional reforms to better balance employers’ requirements
with the needs of Canadian
workers.”
JOE LOFARO/metro

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Woman who wrote
on Taliban killed
Home invasion. Indian
author had previously
escaped Afghanistan
and execution in 1995
An Indian woman whose
memoir about life under
Taliban rule was turned into
a Bollywood movie was shot
dead Thursday by suspected
members of the Islamist militia, officials said.
The killing of Sushmita
Banerjee was the latest in a
string of attacks on prominent women in Afghanistan,
adding to fears that women’s
rights — in a country where
many are barely allowed outside the house — will face

setbacks after U.S.-led foreign
forces fully withdraw in 2014.
The militants arrived
before dawn at Banerjee’s
residence in eastern Paktika
province, which lies in Afghanistan’s east — a region
where the Taliban are especially influential.
Her husband, Jaanbaz
Khan, answered the door,
only to be quickly bound and
blindfolded, provincial police chief Gen. Dawlat Khan
Zadran said.
The
militants
then
dragged Banerjee outside and
shot her at least 15 times,
Zadran said.
Banerjee — who was from
Kolkata, India — wrote A Kabuliwala’s Bengali Wife. It later
became the basis for the 2003

film Escape from Taliban.
The book described how
she met Jaanbaz in India and
agreed to marry him despite
her parents’ disapproval and
the fact that he was Muslim
while she was Hindu.
According to summaries
of the book online, Banerjee moved to Afghanistan as
Jaanbaz’s second wife, only to
find that life would become
unbearable with the Taliban
increasing their hold over the
country.
In an interview posted on
India’s Rediff website, Banerjee described trying to flee
Afghanistan multiple times,
and how she was ordered executed as a result. She made it
back to Kolkata in 1995.
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birth-control recall
The company that
removed one of its birthcontrol pills from the
market last week due to
a packaging error is now
recalling a second.
Mylan Pharmaceuticals
is recalling Esme-28 after
it was unable to rule out
the possibility that the
product was affected
by the same packaging
mix-up that occurred with
Freya-28. The Canadian Press

Porcine police work. Cops
hope dead pig will be able
to solve disappearances
The RCMP in Saskatchewan is
setting out to solve the mystery of where bodies go when
people disappear in the North
Saskatchewan River.
Mounties
have
placed
a 68-kilogram pig carcass,
equipped with a radio tracking device and a temperature
gauge, in the river near North
Battleford. Police will head out
on the water next week to track

the carcass’s movement toward
Nipawin.
They hope their longplanned experiment will turn
up potential patterns of where
bodies go when they drift
downstream.
Const. Tyler Hadland says
several people have presumably gone missing in the river
and their bodies have not been
found. The Canadian Press

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Obama presses world
leaders to support
a strike on Syria
G20 summit. U.S.
president runs into
opposition to proposed
military action from
Russia, China and the
European Union
U.S. President Barack Obama
pressed fellow world leaders
on Thursday to support a U.S.led strike on Syria, but he ran
into opposition from Russia,
China and even the EU, which
condemned the recent chemical weapons attack in Bashar
Assad’s country but declared it
too soon for military action.
“The use of chemical
weapons in Syria is not only
a tragedy but also a violation
of international law that must
be addressed,” Obama insisted
during a meeting with Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at
the G20 summit, where he
mostly made his case behind
the scenes.
China’s G20 delegation
spokesman, Qin Gang, was
among those who countered,
saying: “War isn’t the fundamental way to solve problems
in Syria.”
The prospect of military
action against Syria overshadowed the global growth
agenda at the two-day summit,
which opened Thursday in the
Russian city of St. Petersburg.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with U.S. President Barack
Obama during the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Thursday.

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4 stories coming
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TEXT AND PHOTOS: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/CONTRIBUTED

PM Harper takes firm stand
on Syria, debt reduction

U.S. to scale back stimulus
gradually: Russian official

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is taking
a firm position on two issues at this
year’s summit, with little hope of achieving a wider consensus with his fellow
leaders on either front. Harper made it
clear that a military strike is necessary
against Syria; and that countries should
be setting hard targets for reducing their
debts, as Canada is now doing.

Russia’s finance minister says U.S.
President Barack Obama assured G20
leaders that the U.S. will be scaling back
its stimulus policy. The prospect of the
U.S. Federal Reserve scaling back its
policy of quantitative easing has dampened hopes of a global recovery and has
already caused weakness in emergingmarket currencies.

Tax offensive sets sights
on Google, Amazon

Human-rights activists stage
individual protests at G20

Russia’s finance minister says that G20
leaders have agreed on a plan to take on
companies who tuck away their profits
in offshore jurisdictions. Anton Siluanov
said leaders are indignant over giants like
Google and Amazon, who “make money in
one country” but pay lower taxes elsewhere.

Spaced out along St. Petersburg’s main
thoroughfare, about a dozen activists
staged protests to attract attention to
human-rights violations in Russia. Activist Iosiph Skakovsky said they held individual protests because mass protests are
often banned or disrupted by police.

Dmitry Lovetsky/the associated press

Leaders did, however, discuss
the crisis during a dinner hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of the Syrian
government’s strongest supporters.
While Obama has long
called for the ouster of Assad,
the chemical weapons attack
near Damascus two weeks ago
pushed the U.S. to the brink of
military action for the first time
during Syria’s civil war. The U.S.
position on Syria has increased
tensions with Putin, one of
Assad’s most important backers. Putin has blocked efforts at
the UN to take action and has
questioned intelligence reports
U.S. officials say link the chemical weapon deployment to the
Syrian leader. the associated press

Chemical warfare?

U.K.: New
evidence
gas used
U.K. scientists have found
new evidence that poison
gas was used last month
outside of Damascus, U.K.
Prime Minister David
Cameron said Thursday
in an interview with the
BBC. Cameron said that the
evidence “further shows the
use of chemical weapons in
that Damascus suburb.”
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Report. Scientists
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moments were more
likely due to manmade global warming
A study of a dozen of 2012’s
wildest weather events found
that man-made global warming increased the likelihood
of about half of them, including Superstorm Sandy’s devastating surge and shrinking

Arctic sea ice.
The other half — including
a record wet British summer
and the U.S. drought last year
— simply reflected the random freakiness of weather, researchers with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and the British
meteorological office concluded in a report issued Thursday.
The scientists conducted
thousands of runs of different
computer simulations that
looked at various factors, such
as moisture in the air, atmospheric flow, and sea temperature. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An inconvenient truth

The 78 international
researchers, said climate
change had made these
2012 events more likely.
• U.S. heat waves,
Superstorm Sandy
flooding, the changing
Arctic sea ice, drought
in Europe’s Iberian
peninsula, and extreme
rainfall in Australia and
New Zealand.

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been taught to firstyears at Saint Mary’s
University for years
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Jared Perry, president of Saint Mary’s University Student Association, speaks with the media at the Gorsebrook
Lounge in Halifax on Thursday. Jeff Harper/Metro in Halifax

‘Humans are above dogs’
The mayor of the Romanian
capital says there will be
a referendum on whether
thousands of stray dogs
should be euthanized after a
four-year-old boy was killed
by a stray this week.
Sorin Oprescu said Thursday that the date for the ref-

erendum will be decided on
Friday.
President Traian Basescu
called on the government
on Tuesday to pass a law that
would allow for stray dogs
to be killed, saying “humans
are above dogs.”

Dog bites

According to animal welfare authorities, some 1,100
people were bitten by stray
dogs in Bucharest in the
first four months of 2013.

The president of the Saint
Mary’s University Student Association says he knew about
and participated in a chant
glorifying the rape of underage
girls — but will not step down.
“We want to be some serious advocates about sexual
assault and we want to turn
this around and educate
more students,” said Jared
Perry during a news conference in Halifax Thursday.
Eighty student leaders and
three SMUSA executive memFatal shooting

Zimmerman’s wife
filing for divorce
George Zimmerman’s wife
is filing for divorce.
Attorney Kelly Sims
confirmed Thursday that his
client, Shellie Zimmerman,
is divorcing her husband of
six years.

bers will undergo sensitivity
training after a video surfaced of them leading hundreds of first-year students in
the chant, which spells out
the word “young” with lines
like, “U is for underage, N is
for no consent.”
Perry said the chant has
been taught to frosh for years.
He said he and the other leaders just didn’t think about the
message.
“It’s more about the rhyme
and the chant behind it,” he
said. “As odd as it sounds, we
didn’t see the message.... We
now realize that it’s extremely serious and we don’t want
it to happen any more.”
Perry has resigned as chair
of the Students Nova Scotia
group, but will not give up the
office of SMUSA president.
“It’s definitely the biggest
mistake I’ve made throughout my university career and
Shellie Zimmerman
pleaded guilty last week to
a misdemeanour for lying
during a bail hearing after
her husband’s arrest for the
fatal shooting of 17-year-old
Trayvon Martin last year.
A day after the plea, she
told ABC’s Good Morning
America she wasn’t sure she
wanted to stay married. ABC
first reported the divorce

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Opportunity for change?

“I feel that there’s an
opportunity here to
make some changes
and I really do want to
turn this around.”
Jared Perry, president of the Saint Mary’s
University Student Association

probably my life,” he said.
Saint Mary’s president Dr.
Colin Dodds called the chant
“completely inexcusable.”
“My colleagues and I were
shocked by this incident and
are deeply sorry that our students, and now the community at large, were exposed to
disturbing sexually charged
material,” he said in a statement. “I am taking measures
to ensure it does not happen in
the future.”
Thursday.
She said the couple lived
“like gypsies” after George
Zimmerman was released
on bail, spending nights in a
20-foot trailer in the woods.
Her husband wasn’t in
court with her last week
as she was sentenced to a
year’s probation and 100
hours of community service.
the associated press

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Yahoo unveils first
major logo revamp
Branding. Whimsical
purple emblem hasn’t
been changed for most
of firm’s 18-year history
Yahoo has adopted a new logo
for the first time since shortly
after the Internet company’s
founding 18 years ago.
The redesigned look is part
of a makeover that Yahoo Inc.
has been undergoing since the
Sunnyvale, Calif., company
hired Google executive Marissa
Mayer to become Yahoo’s CEO
14 months ago.
Mayer has already spruced
up Yahoo’s front page, email
and Flickr photo-sharing service, as well as engineered a series of acquisitions aimed at attracting more traffic on mobile
devices. The shopping spree
has been highlighted by Yahoo’s $1.1-billion US purchase
of Tumblr, an Internet blogging
service where the company
rolled out its new logo.

Employment

Older workers
taking part-time
jobs away from
teenage students

Taking stock

80%
Still purple, still effusive, but slightly
more grown up? Yahoo’s new logo is
part of a makeover that’s been underway since Marissa Mayer became CEO
14 months ago. Courtesy Yahoo Inc.

“We wanted a logo that
stayed true to our roots (whimsical, purple, with an exclamation point) yet embraced the
evolution of our products,” a
statement on the website said.
Yahoo has spent the past
30 days showing some of the
proposed logos that Mayer and
other executives cast aside.
The revision is the first time
that Yahoo has made a significant change to its logo since
a few tweaks shortly after cofounders Jerry Yang and David
Filo incorporated the company

Yahoo’s stock has climbed by nearly 80 per
cent, but most of that gain has been driven
by the company’s 24 per cent stake in China’s
Alibaba Holdings Group.

in 1995.
Mayer’s overhaul of Yahoo
has attracted a lot of attention,
but so far it hasn’t provided a
significant lift to the company’s
revenue. Yahoo depends on
web advertising to make most
of its money, an area where the
company’s growth has been
anemic while more marketing
dollars flow to rivals such as
Google and Facebook.
Yahoo’s stock has climbed
by nearly 80 per cent, but most
of that gain has been driven by
its 24 per cent stake in China’s
Alibaba Holdings Group. Investors prize Alibaba because it has
emerged as one of the fastestgrowing companies on the Internet. The Associated Press

Tokyo’s 2020 dream burns bright
A message reading Tokyo 2020 We Believe illuminates the compound
of Zojoji Temple in Tokyo on Thursday. The 2,020 candles making
up the display each bear written wishes from citizen runners who
support Tokyo’s bid to host the Olympics. Tokyo is competing with
Madrid and Istanbul for the right to host the 2020 games, with the
International Olympic Committee set to select the host city on Saturday in Buenos Aires. Kyodo News/The Associated Press

Privacy. Google seeks to
dismiss Gmail lawsuit
Google’s attorneys say their
long-running practice of electronically scanning the contents of people’s Gmail accounts to help sell ads is legal,
and are asking a U.S. federal
judge to dismiss a lawsuit that
seeks to stop the practice.
In court records filed in
advance of a federal hearing
Thursday in San Jose, Calif.,
Google argues that “all users of
email must necessarily expect
that their emails will be subject
to automated processing.”
The class-action lawsuit,
filed in May, says Google “un-

lawfully opens up, reads, and
acquires the content of people’s
private email messages” in violation of California’s privacy
laws and federal wiretapping
statutes.
The lawsuit notes that the
company even scans messages
sent to any of the 425 million
active Gmail users from nonGmail users who never agreed
to the company’s terms.
Google has repeatedly described how it targets its advertising based on words that
show up in Gmail messages.

The Canadian Press

Quebec

Corruption
suspects gave
$2M to federal
political parties
Dozens of suspects accused
of corruption at Quebec’s
municipal and provincial
levels have also been involved in national politics,
giving more than $2 million
in donations to federal
parties, an investigation
by The Canadian Press has
revealed.
An analysis involving
all 102 individuals charged
after sweeps by Quebec’s
anti-corruption police
squad shows that nearly
half — 45 of them — made
registered legal contributions to federal parties from
1993 to 2011. The actual
extent of their connections
to federal politics, however,
may never be known.
The Canadian Press

The Associated Press

Mobile payments. PayPal
meets brick-and-mortar
PayPal is updating its mobile
app, adding features such as
the ability to place an order
ahead of time and pay with it
while at the restaurant table.
The move comes as eBay
Inc.’s subsidiary works to expand beyond processing payments for online purchases.
It’s been trying to service transactions at brick-and-mortar
stores as the two worlds continue to meld.
The free app is available for
iPhones and Android phones. It

A new report suggests that
a growing number of older
workers are taking on parttime jobs, which in turn is
pushing up the unemployment rate among teenaged
students.
The CIBC World Markets
report says the unemployment rate for students aged
15 to 18 who are seeking
part-time work has climbed
to a record high of more
than 20 per cent.
The report also notes
that employment among
those in the 15-18 age group
has fallen by 22 per cent
since 2007 even though the
overall population in that
age group has declined by
only four per cent.

includes a feature called Shop.
With it, people can find nearby
stores and restaurants that
take PayPal payments. People
can use their phones to pay for
things.
Forrester Research analyst
Denee Carrington called the
update the next step in mobile
payments, though she noted
that some features — such as
the ability to use PayPal to pay
the bill at a restaurant — could
take people some time to get
used to. The Associated Press

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IF IT’S NOT ONLINE, DID IT HAPPEN?
Social. This topical Canadian news
4 The
7 Oh, Canada.
show debuted this week on CTV and its ap-

Upworthy. One of my favourite sites is
1
upworthy.com, which posts highly shareable,
inspirational, meaningful videos about how

proach to social media is bang on. The show
people can change the world — from issues like
connects to viewers via real time tweeting
child poverty to body image to climate change. As
@TheSocialCTV. Many of the show’s topics and
their @Upworthy Twitter bio simply puts it,
discussions arise there, and the hosts read
“Things that matter. Pass ’em on.” So check it out
tweets in real time from viewers. Great use of
and spread the word.
social media to fuel a show and engage with an
Rob Delaney. Comedian @RobDelaney tweets
audience.
gems. Here’s a sample: “Bad news: Doctors
@KirstineStewart. She is the head of Twitter
can’t figure out my wife is constantly sneezing
Canada (former CBC exec) and as such is an
blood everywhere. Good news: That hair gel I
active tweeter, tweeting and RT’ing interestTHE METRO LIST
like is on sale at CVS.” He has a new book, Rob
ing tidbits showing how people are leveraging
Delaney, about his life (sobriety, depression and
the power of Twitter in the business, media
Neil Morton
happy things) coming out in November. He has
and pop-culture worlds. Unfortunately, as her
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no filter, he is a survivor, he is hilarious. Follow
Twitter bio says, she doesn’t “know how to get
him and buy his book.
you ‘verified’....” I just sucked up for no reason.
We Day. This inspiring day from Free the Children and Me to
Milos Raonic. Monday night, TSN2 carried a terrific five-set
We about empowering youth on social issues takes place in
match between Canada’s Milos Raonic and Richard Gascities throughout Canada. There’s an event on Sept. 20 in Toronto.
quet at the U.S. Open. What made the coverage extra special
The star power involved includes Demi Lovato, the Jonas Brothwas that it was commentary-free. Surreal but beautiful in leters, Martin Luther King III, Serena Ryder and Col. Chris Hadfield.
ting the players and sounds of the fans dictate the drama. The
There is also a Vancouver event Oct. 18. The overriding message:
lesson: Sports announcers need to dial it down in close matchBe engaged, be the change. Anyone can make a difference.
es. Let the action speak.

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Naomi Harris, a Canadian photographer based
in New York, released a stunning series of portrait photographs she captured during a five-month cross-Canada journey.
From cricket players in Stanley Park, B.C., to a Sioux Valley Pow
Wow in Sioux Valley, Man., to a Demolition Derby in Weyburn,
Sask., check out the beautiful pics of our country’s diverse culture at naomiharris.com.
Critter bites Mike Fisher. Carrie Underwood posted videos on
Vine of her NHL-player hubby picking up a chipmunk with
his bare hand after it sneaked into their home, and then the bite
marks it left on him. This is proof celebs really are just like us.
Well, maybe not. We’d use a bucket and gloves.
WatchABC.com. The future of TV is online. Three ABC comedies — The Goldbergs, Trophy Wife and Back in the Game
— will debut on WatchABC.com (from Sept. 3 to 17) before they
hit TV screens.
Twitter etiquette. I always find it amusing when someone
complains about what you’re tweeting about. Comedian
@rickygervais summed it up best this week when he
tweeted, “Following someone on Twitter & complaining about their tweets is
like secretly stalking someone &
Follow The Metro List on
telling them they’re going the
Twitter @TheMetroList
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Summer’s winding down and that
means summer
holidays are grinding to a halt too. If
you didn’t get out
of town as much
SPARKYLEIGH/FLICKR
as you hoped, the
Interwebs are here to quench that travel thirst. In
lieu of hitting the Trans-Canada in that VW van,
we bring you Instagram accounts from across
Canada (so you can get a peek and see where you
want to hit next summer).
getup is pushing out pics of the prov@Othellonine:
ince; unpredictably, they’re actually
They don’t call it “beautiful B.C.” for
nothing. Scott Rankin makes Vancouver look kind of like paradise (or at
least like Canada’s real ocean playground).

@Ontariotravel:

Predictably, the province’s tourism

Letters
COURTESY RSPCA

Hedgehog facts

Animal vows
never to play
badminton again
This prickly mess was the
result of a hedgehog
becoming tangled in a
badminton net in a British
garden. The tangle blocked
the mammal’s spines and
mouth. Luckily, the animal
was rescued. METRO

Get to know the neighbour in
your garden.
• Spines. Adults have between 5,000 to 7,000 quills
on their back and tail.
•

Family. A cousin of the
shrew but unrelated to
similar-looking porcupines.

Advice

“This serves as a reminder for people who
use garden sports sets
to ensure they are safely
removed and stored.
Had we not been called
the hedgehog would
not have survived.”

Dudley Clements
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals (RSPCA)

Prickly number

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The percentage by which the hedgehog population is estimated to have
shrunk this century in Britain, leading
to fears of extinction. Actions such
as Hedgehog Awareness Week have
been launched in the hope of reversing this trend.

RE: Not All Teachers Created Equal;
He Says column, published Sept. 5
I was very offended by a statement
that Mr. Mazerolle stated in his
article.
I find it ironic that he’s speaking
out against labelling, or other forms
of prejudgment, however, he is
critiquing my profession of ten years,
my parents livelihood and the reason
I’m debt free after a honorary psychology degree and going to become

really great.

@visitnovascotia:

From pics of beaches and bridges to
lighthouses and lakes, Nova Scotia’s
tourism account shows the best of the
province (though please pardon some
of the cliché imagery).

an environmental technologist.
My parents never “sling or
spitballed” any teacher because of
their insinuated lack of education.
As a matter of fact, they’ve worked
their way up from youth to franchise
a store, and now they are paying for
my education, because they know
and respect teachers and education.
They also respect hard work and
dedication to their job. So before Mr.
Mazerolle belittles cashiers maybe
he should realize, that last time I
checked, cashiers are people, too.
Hilary Pryce, Toronto

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Riddick is heavy on the filters and crazy creatures, but light on entertainment. CONTRIBUTED

Just plain Riddickulous
Riddick. Tawdry
graphics, cheesy
dialogue and
gratuitous nudity
doesn’t even make
this film campy fun
Richard: Mark, Riddick
should have been titled Riddickulous. With its cheap
effects, cheesy dialogue,
gratuitous nudity and testosterone-laced characters,
it might provide midnight
movie-style nostalgia for
anyone who grew up on
direct-to-video sci-fi flicks
in the 1980s. Anyone else
might want to go back to
the original movie in this
series, Pitch Black, and

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enjoy a movie that actually
kinda makes sense. This is
the rare movie that is actually better when the star
isn’t in it. What did you
think?
Mark: The movie has a
look, I have to admit, and
it kept me connected to the
film for the first 40 minutes. The director has never
met a filter he didn’t like.
But Vin Diesel didn’t bother
me as much as the movie
itself. It’s so grim and ugly
it’s hard to watch. And after
the first 40, kind of boring,
which is unforgivable.
RC: I agree with you about
the stark look of the film.
There’s no eye candy, although some of the creatures are pretty cool, but

I’m on the opposite page
regarding Diesel’s solo act
for the first 40 minutes.
I didn’t think this movie
worked at all until he gave
up the Survivorman act and
the bounty hunters showed
up. Then, for my money, it
became a typical bad movie
instead of a surreally bad
film.
MB: And didn’t that part
of the film feel to you like
a video game right down to
the tawdry graphics? And if
it’s silly you’re looking for,
I’m glad to see that women
in outer space are still wearing eyeliner.
RC: You want silly? How
about fending off a vicious
dog-creature by starting an
impromptu game of fetch?

Or maybe using words like
“jamoke” in the far distant
future. If the movie had embraced its silliness instead
of taking itself so seriously in all the wrong ways,
I might have enjoyed it
more!
MB: I might have enjoyed
it more if it were a completely different movie. I
like Diesel in his Fast and
Furious franchise, so maybe
this flick needed some car
races to soup it up. As I
watched it, I gave it some
grudging admiration for
the purity of its grim vision. Then there’s an eleventh hour act of gratuitous
kindness that makes no
sense at all and ruins what
little the film has going for
it.

SCENE

In Vin Diesel’s fourth outing
as the mercenary-turnedenforcer, he has been doublecrossed and left for dead. “I
don’t know how many times
I’ve been crossed off the list,”
he mumbles in a voice-over,
“but this ain’t nothing new.”
He spends his days battling
aliens until not one, but two
teams of bounty hunters land
on the planet. The first team,
lead by Santana (Jordi Mollà)
wants Riddick dead so they
can collect the ransom. The
other team, headed by Boss
Johns (Matt Nable) wants him
alive for questioning. As the
bounty hunters bang heads,
Riddick plans a wild scheme
of vengeance and escape
from this desolate planet.

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All right, summer’s over, school’s back in session and the parade of brainless summer fare has come to an end.
‘Tis the season that films compete for your admiration. Well, at least some of them.
matt prigge

Films to see as the leaves start to fall
Metro World News in New York

Ender’s Game (Nov. 1)
What: Orson Scott Card’s
classic 1985 novel about kids
(Asa Butterfield and Hailee
Steinfeld) trained for military
battle against aliens finally gets
the big budget adaptation for
which its author likely always
pined.
Why: The novel is one of sci-fi’s
brainiest, and hey, there’s Harrison Ford presumably grumbling up a storm as one of the
elders.

The Armstrong Lie is Alex Gibney’s second high profile doc in six months.

Why not: In case you haven’t
heard, Card is a gigantic homophobe who called for revolution if gay marriage was ever
implemented and now thinks
people who hate him are being intolerant. But this isn’t the
first — or gazillionth — time a
legitimately awful human being has produced good art.

contributed

The little films...

• How I Live. The everubiquitous Saoirse Ronan
once again plays a young
girl in duress, this time
stuck on her lonesome in
the countryside as a third
world war breaks out.

Will get an Oscar for: Most talented dedicated homophobe.
Dallas Buyers Club
(Nov. 1)
What: Matthew McConaughey
plays the real-life Ron Woodruff, a homophobe who in 1986
was diagnosed with HIV and
started smuggling cheap, illegal
drugs to stay alive.
Why: McConaughey is evidently still on the Great Comeback
Tour that began last year with

Ben Kingsley in Ender’s Game. contributed

Bernie, Magic Mike and Killer
Joe and is continuing with Mud
and The Wolf of Wall Street.
Good.
Why not: This could be selfimportant. But it sounds crazy
enough that it might just work!
Will get an Oscar for: Best
Matthew McConaughey per-

formance of 2013.
About Time (Nov. 1)
What: British rom-com artist
Richard Curtis (Love Actually)
long ago became a genre unto
himself, but lately he’s been
trying to wiggle his way out.
Pirate Radio wasn’t romantic
at all, and his latest concerns

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September 9th

time travelling: A young man
(Domhnall Gleeson) tries to
change his love life with magic
and — whaddaya know? — gets
Rachel McAdams.
Why: The most annoying thing
about Curtis is that, insufferable though his films regularly
are, they tend to have various
degrees of charm.
Why not: He still made Love
Actually.
Will get an Oscar for: Best attempt to shake up a desiccating
career with a sci-fi gimmick.
Thor: The Dark World
(Nov. 8)
What: Everyone’s favourite
hammer-wielding Norse god
who’s the source of fish-out-ofwater jokes (Chris Hemsworth)
goes solo again. This time he
battles totally different superpowerful beings.
Why: The first was moderately
amusing, though presumably
this time our square-jawed
brickhouse of a hero knows better than to request a horse at a
pet shop.
Why not: In other words,
what’s left to show?

Will get an Oscar for: Best use
of a Hemsworth brother.
The Wolf of Wall Street

• The Armstrong Lie. You
think Tyler Perry makes
too many movies? This
look at Lance Armstrong is
Alex Gibney’s second high
profile documentary in the

(Nov. 15)
What: Martin Scorsese returns
to keyed-up, gleefully amoral
Goodfellas mode, only this time
about even worse people: stockbrokers (played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill).
Why: If this isn’t ridiculously
entertaining and hugely quotable, then there’s no god.
Why not: There’s probably
no god anyway. But seriously,
there’s zero chance this isn’t a
blast. Have we mentioned Matthew McConaughey, currently
waist-deep in career repairmen
mode, is in it?

last six months, after the
disappointing Julian Assange
hit job WikiLeaks: We Steal
Secrets.
• Nebraska. Alexander Payne
follows up The Descendants with this more
simplified drama, shot in
black-and-white and following a road trip taken by
a man (Will Forte) and his
grumbling father (Bruce
Dern).

est, we mean they’re stupid and
poorly written without being
distractingly so a la the works
of Dan Brown.
Why not: The Battle Royale
films (even the somewhat
underrated sequel) do this
better, and give you R-rated carnage to boot. But do
they feature “futuristic” names
like Haymitch Abernathy and
Caesar Flickerman?
Will get an Oscar for: Best terrible names.

Will get an Oscar for: Best
movie ever.
The Hunger Games:
Catching Fire (Nov. 22)
What: Some girl with a weird
name that rhymes with “cat
piss” (Jennifer Lawrence) continues her adventures outsmarting a dystopian future
society with her archery skills
while choosing which nice boy
to be with.
Why: The books (or at least the
first one) are some of the easiest
reads in memory. And by easi-

For some actors, director Joe
Swanberg’s mostly improvised
method can be daunting, but
others — like his Drinking Buddies cast of Olivia Wilde, Ron
Livingston, Anna Kendrick and
Jake Johnson — find it exhilarating. Swanberg gives us some
insight into his writing and editing process and his stringent
“no yelling” policy for himself
on set.
How much of this was improvised and how much did you
plot out?
The plot was pretty heavily
figured out before we shot anything. The size of the movie
and the infrastructure involved
meant that we had to schedule
it, we had to lock down locations. We had to know what
the story was going to be and
even what the scenes were going to be in a vague way. Being
my own editor allows me to be

a little more open as a director.
Editing becomes a lot of the
writing process.
How do you go about pitching
this sort of process to actors?
It’s a very conversational pitch.
I talk about where the themes
came from, how I relate to the
story, what I’m pulling from
my own life and I feel like that’s
a nice lead-in to discussing how
their own stories can enter into
the picture. The goal ultimately
is to have it be a kind of collaborative performing and writing process, so I’m looking for
people who are open to sharing
and talking about those kinds
of things — relationship things.
Did you find some actors just
didn’t quite go for that?
Sure. I met a lot of great actors,
people whose work I admire,
who just either weren’t excited
by the improv process or for
one reason or another thematically this wasn’t a story they
were interested in telling right
now. I mean, there’s a lot of

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me more empathetic to that
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Cabaret. Michelle Williams to take on
iconic Liza Minnelli role on Broadway
Michelle
Williams
will
make her Broadway debut
next year in a role best
known by Liza Minnelli
— fishnet-and-bowler -hatwearing chanteuse Sally
Bowles in Cabaret.
The Roundabout Theatre Company confirmed
Wednesday that the former Dawson’s Creek and
Brokeback Mountain star
will join Alan Cumming in
the revival. Williams takes
over after Emma Stone
withdrew due to scheduling
conflicts.
Previews
will
begin
March 21 with an opening set for April 24 at the
Roundabout Studio 54 theatre on Broadway, the last
home of the show, which
ran for more than 2,000
performances from 1998 to
2004. It won the Tony Award
in 1998 for best musical revival. Cumming, who will
be reprising his 1998 turn
as Master of Ceremonies,
recently ended a one-man
Macbeth.
Also reprising their parts
from the 1998 production:
Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall, who will direct. Marshall will also choreograph
this time as well.
Cabaret, both the Broad-

Analysis

reasons why somebody would
or wouldn’t want to do this
movie, but I think people were
all curious.

Have you seen any examples
as an actor of directors’ behavior you’re careful to avoid?
I don’t think there are any circumstances in which yelling
at somebody or losing your
temper is going to help a situation. A set is a living organism
that’s responsive to stimuli. If
somebody at the top is stressed
out, everybody feels it. You
don’t need to say it out loud.
Some people thrive on conflict,
though. I think there are a lot
of directors that like having intense, conflict-filled sets.

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The plot

Set in 1931 Berlin, Cabaret
centres on the world of the
indulgent Kit Kat Klub as it
becomes intertwined with
the world outside, which
gets more precarious on
the brink of the Second
World War. The songs by
John Kander and Fred Ebb
include Willkommen and
Tomorrow Belongs to Me.

Michelle Williams.
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way show and 1972 film
starring Minnelli, Joel Grey
and Michael York, are based
on the 1951 Broadway play
I Am a Camera, which, in
turn, was based on Christopher Isherwood’s book
Goodbye to Berlin.
In addition to Minnelli,
the part of Bowles has been
played by Jill Haworth, Gina

Gershon, Melina Kanakaredes, Natasha Richardson,
Jane Leeves, Lea Thompson, Alyson Reed and Judi
Dench, among others.
Williams’ film career
took off with 2005’s Brokeback Mountain and received
her first of her three Oscar
nominations for her performance as the rejected
wife of former real-life
partner Heath Ledger’s cowboy.
She’s earned two other
nods, for Blue Valentine
and My Week with Marilyn.
Her other credits include
Shutter Island and Land of
Plenty and was directed by
Raimi in his recent film Oz:
The Great and Powerful.
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Blurred Lines named the Songs you may have missed
Billboard song of summer
sound
check

To no one’s surprise,
Robin Thicke’s Blurred
Lines is Billboard’s
song of summer 2013.
Billboard
announced
the
list
Thursday. Rock outfit
Imagine Dragons is
second with Radioactive, followed by
Daft Punk with Get
Lucky.
Miley Cyrus’ party
anthem We Can’t Stop
is fourth and Can’t
Hold Us by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis is
fifth.
The rest of the list
includes hits from
Florida Georgia Line,
Justin
Timberlake,
Bruno Mars and Selena
Gomez. Oscar nominee
Anna Kendrick’s Pitch
Perfect soundtrack hit,
Cups, is ninth.
Thicke’s
Blurred
Lines was also named
Spotify’s song of the
summer.
The Associated Press

Before we get into all the big fourthquarter releases, we probably should
talk about this stuff.

Alan Cross
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Song-wol

Sleepwalking
1/Throwing
Muses
Ten years after their
last release, the experimental 4AD darlings
will be back with a
32-track album (tucked
inside a 64-page part
book) Oct. 28.

She was rumoured to
be an ex-girlfriend of
North Korean whacko
Kim Jong-un. Last
month, though, she
and 11 members of her
band were executed on
trumped up charges
of making porn. Yes,
executed. By a machine
gun firing squad.
Robin Thicke has finally found success with his hit Blurred Lines.

Duct Tape/The
Warp Zone
Yes, a song about
the most useful of
all household items.
About time, too.

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Scarlett Johansson

50 Shades of no way! Fans
start online petition to
change cast

Not everyone was thrilled
with the announcement
that Charlie Hunnam and
Dakota Johnson will star
in the 50 Shades of Grey
movie. Fans of the steamy
book even launched a petition to have the roles recast
with their choices, Alexis
Bledel and Matt Bomer.
“Matt Bomer is the PERFECT DESCRIPTION OF
CHRISTIAN GREY AND
ALEXIS BLEDEL IS THE
PERFECT ACTRESS TO
REPRESENT ANASTASIA
STEELE and if THEY ARE

News just in ... Johansson
and journalist engaged
Scarlett Johansson is engaged
to her journalist boyfriend,
Romain Dauriac, the actress’
rep confirms to E! News,
saying that the pair are “very
happy” with the development. “They haven’t chosen
a wedding date yet,” the rep

NOT, NOBODY WILL BE,”
the levelheaded petition
on Change.org reads. “I
read the whole trilogy and
I can assure that Matt is
the perfect actor for this
movie and Alexis too. So
please PLEASE, all of the
GREYsessed and Bomerettes
in the world NEED those
actors. They always will be
for us the Christian Grey
and Anastasia Steele. WE
CAN DO ANYTHING GUYS,
ANYTHING.” The petition
has already pulled in more
than 18,000 supporters.

says. Johansson and Dauriac
first went public with their
romance last November
and have kept things pretty
low-key since. This will be
Johansson’s second marriage
after her 2011 divorce from
Ryan Reynolds.

Naomi Watts

No one knows Watts the
matter with Naomi
Lady Gaga

Not feeling
‘real wind
for years’
has made Where in the
her go Gaga world is Lamar

Part of Lady Gaga’s evolution
as a pop star includes learning
to go outside more. The singer
tells the Guardian that she
used to think she needed to
stay in hiding to maintain
her image. “I hid in my house
… to preserve my image as
a superstar to my fans,” she
tells the newspaper. “I don’t
mean I am a superstar, I mean
that they only ever see me at
my best. And it really drove
me crazy. So I’ve really had to
make more of an effort to go
out more. I mean, can you imagine what it’s like not to feel
real wind? Honestly, I hadn’t
felt real wind for years.”

Odom?

THE
WORD

Dorothy Robinson
scene@metronews.ca

Just what is going on
with Lamar Odom? The
Internet was abuzz on
Thursday with the news
that troubled Kardashian
man piece Lamar Odom
had checked himself into
rehab in order to save
his marriage to Kourtney
Kardashian. It hasn’t been

the best month for Odom
— numerous reports have
surfaced that he cheated
on Kourtney with a stripper and he’s come clean
about his addiction to
Oxycontin, Ambien and
cocaine — but not before
he was arrested for a DUI
last week in California (so
maybe add “alcohol” to
that list, Lamar?).
But then TMZ.com came
out with the bombshell
that Odom is nowhere
near a rehab centre and
Kourtney has heard nothing from him. So whereoh-where is Odom? Who
knows? If only someone
would create a show called
Keeping up with the Kardashians so we could keep
tabs.

Naomi Watts is apparently not
having the best time on her
current press tour for Diana,
in which she plays the late
Princess of Wales during the
final years of her life. Watts apparently cut short an interview
with British radio host Simon
Mayo, though it’s unclear
what prompted her early exit.
“Naomi Watts walked out of

an interview. She seemed a tad
uncomfortable with the questions. Shame,” Mayo posted
to Twitter, later insisting to
responders that he had “no
idea” what riled her so much.
The abbreviated interview is
set for broadcast next week.
Watts’ camp has
not yet responded
to the report.

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School lunch. Skip the
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sandwich and roll up
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There are a lot of grapes
in the wine world. They
number in the thousands.
While some are variations
on a single varietal, the majority are standalone berries
— many of which never
see a vine outside of their
particular geography.
Some, though, are international superstars. Think
chardonnay, sauvignon
blanc and riesling on the
white side, and pinot noir,
merlot and cabernet sauvignon on the red side.
Cabernet sauvignon is
arguably king. An accommodating piece of fruit, it’s
one of the few grapes that
keeps its core taste profile
intact when it travels. You’ll
find its classic blackberry
to black currant flavours
and typically oak-influenced
power whether you’re
catching a cab in Bordeaux,
France (where it originates) or Ontario’s Niagara
Peninsula.
Cabernet has had a
love affair with California
for decades. Famous for
producing powerful, palatepounding wines in The
Golden State, the recent
Cali trend is toward plump,
juicier versions.
Trinchero Family
Estates’ 2011 The Show
Cabernet Sauvignon ($17.95
to $19.99) is about red berry
expression and balanced
tannins. Though great with
beef, it’s a pleasing mouth
full of wine without a real
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No, this isn’t real sushi. It is
a whole-wheat tortilla filled
with meat, then rolled up
and sliced into maki-style
sushi rounds. It’s fast, easy,
delicious and healthy.
If you like, add vegetables
(leafy greens and grated carrots work particularly well).
You can even accompany
this with containers of honey
mustard or barbecue sauce
for dipping the “sushi.”
Want to take this in a different direction? Substitute
peanut butter for the cream
cheese and a banana for the
meats. Sprinkle in a few mini
chocolate chips, then roll
and slice.

1. Spread cream cheese
evenly over one side of tortilla. Be sure to spread cream
cheese all the way to the
edge, as this helps seal the
roll shut and keep it from
unwrapping.
2. Arrange the meat (and
any vegetables you want to
add) in an even layer over
the tortilla. Be sure to leave
about 1 inch of cream cheese
exposed along the edges.
Ingredients
• 1 to 2 tbsp cream cheese
• 8-inch whole-wheat tortilla
• 1 to 2 oz thinly sliced meat
(salami, steak, cooked chicken
or turkey, or deli meats, such
as ham or prosciutto)

When it comes to school lunches, a little creativity goes a long way.

3. Roll tortilla and fillings into

a tight bundle. If tortilla won’t
stay sealed shut, spread just

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more cream cheese along the
edge to help glue it tight. Use
a serrated knife to cut the roll

into 1-inch rounds.

Keep it simple or make it
exciting. Make the gazpacho
as directed, then accompany
with chopped cilantro, sour
cream, shredded cheese or
croutons that can be added at
lunch.
And don’t limit yourself
to cucumber. Add whatever
vegetables you have handy.

Canned or frozen corn,
leftover grilled veggies, even
grated carrots all would be
great.

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Speedy gazpacho
1. Combine soup, salsa and
cucumber in a food container
with a water-tight lid, then
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Ingredients

There’s no need for the little ones to heat this soup during lunch. MATTHEW

Wawrinka puts big wrinkle
in Murray’s repeat aspirations
U.S. Open. Frustrated
2012 champ makes
unexpected exit after
loss to Swiss underdog
After one set, Andy Murray
slammed his racket into the
court, then mangled it once
he reached his chair on the
sideline. After the second, he
gestured over to his coach,
Ivan Lendl, and let out a frustrated scream.
Stanislas Wawrinka had
the U.S. Open defending
champion in knots all day,
and when the surprisingly
short, less-than-competitive
match was finished Thursday, Murray was a 6-4, 6-3,
6-2 upset loser in the quarterfinals at Flushing Meadows.
“I would have liked to
have played a little bit better,” Murray said after rushing off the court and into the
interview room to explain
the loss. “I’ve had a good run
the last couple of years. It’s
a shame I had to play a bad
match today.”
Ninth-seeded Wawrinka
made his first Grand Slam
semifinal, earning a spot in
the final four for Switzerland
that for so long felt like Roger
Federer’s birthright.
“It feels amazing for sure,

Steamroll to semis

“Just this
tournament,
I started setting different
goals for
myself, and it’s been really
working for me.”
No. 1 Serena Williams who faces No. 5 Li
Na in the women’s semifinals Friday. No. 2
Victoria Azarenka meets 83rd-ranked Flavia
Pennetta in Friday’s other semifinal.

especially here,” said Wawrinka, who didn’t face a break
point over his 14 service
games. “Especially after that
match. He’s the defending
champion. He’s a tough opponent.”
After years of deep trips
into majors, the third-seeded
Murray won his first Grand
Slam title at Flushing Meadows last year, then his second
at Wimbledon this July.
But the straight-set loss
to Wawrinka ended a stay in
New York during which he
never got completely comfortable.
Wawrinka will play the
winner of Thursday’s late
quarter-final between No. 1
Novak Djokovic and No. 21
Mikhail Youzhny.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Stanislas Wawrinka, left, greets Andy Murray after his straight-sets victory over the defending U.S. Open champion
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Women’s soccer coach commits to team’s future

Canada head coach John Herdman
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NHL

Burke says he’ll bite
his lip in Calgary
One of the NHL’s biggest
personalities vows to work
in the background for the
Calgary Flames.
Brian Burke was named
the team’s president of hockey operations on Thursday, a
position the Flames created
for him.

The man who coached the Canadian women’s soccer team to
a historic bronze medal at the
London Olympics has made a
long-term commitment to remain with the program.
John Herdman said extending his contract with the
Canadian Soccer Association
through the 2020 Summer
Games gives him the chance to
build on what has already been
accomplished.
“I don’t
intend to be
front and
centre,” Burke
said Thursday
during a news
conference at
the Scotiabank Brian Burke THE
CANADIAN PRESS
Saddledome.
“That would be
a nice break after being front
and centre and getting into
a lot of little scraps in the
media.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

“It’s a wonderful opportunity to be able to lead a legacy,”
he told a news conference
Thursday. “We have been planning for a 10-year plan since I
came into the organization.
“To know you can actually
see that through and you’ve
got the backing and support of
people, it’s a great place to be
a leader.”
Peter Montopoli, the CSA’s
general secretary, said the
Basketball

Canada steals
another FIBA win
Brady Heslip scored 21
points off the bench Thursday as Canada defeated
Mexico 89-67 at the FIBA
Americas Championship
basketball tournament.
The guard from Baylor
University was 5-of-8 from
three-point range as Canada

2020 vision

“John is the inspiration
and the leader of the
program.”
CSA general secretary Peter Montopoli

agreement brings continuity to
the women’s team. Herdman’s
previous contract ran through
the 2016 Olympics in Rio de
improved to 4-1.
Cory Joseph of the San
Antonio Spurs added 17
points, eight rebounds and
six assists for the Canadians, who will take on
the host from Venezuela on
Friday.
The FIBA Americas
Championship is a qualifying tournament for the
2014 FIBA Basketball World
Cup in Spain.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Janeiro.
Canada will host the 2015
FIFA Women’s World Cup with
the championship game being
played at BC Place Stadium
in Vancouver. Herdman will
now also guide the program
through the 2019 World Cup
and 2020 Olympic Games.
Herdman,
an
Englishman, took over the Canadian
women’s program in 2011.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Tour of Alberta

Dillier wins stage,
Sagan widens lead
Switzerland’s Silvan Dillier
won the second stage of
the Tour of Alberta on
Thursday, while Slovakia’s
Peter Sagan finished third
to increase his lead in the
overall standings. The race
ends Friday in Calgary.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Aries

March 21 - April 20
You need to get your work-rest
balance sorted out. Most likely
you have overdone it in recent
weeks and now need to crash
out for a while. Next time, try
not to go to such extremes.

Taurus

April 21 - May 21
Creative and artistic plans are
under good stars but you may
not be able to do all the things
you were hoping to ­­— at least
not yet. You’ll know when the
time is right to act.

Gemini

May 22 - June 21
It will be so easy to say the
wrong thing at the wrong time
to the wrong person today. If
you do open your mouth when
you should have kept it closed,
you should apologize quickly.

Cancer

June 22 - July 23
According to the planets there
is someone out there who is
trying to make you look bad.
Why? Because they are jealous,
that’s why. In a way, you should
take it as a compliment. But
watch your back as well.

Leo

July 24 - Aug. 23
Expect a certain amount of
criticism today, most likely
from people who do not agree
with your spending plans.
Perhaps they have a point but
they won’t change your ways
by going on and on about it.

Virgo

Aug. 24 - Sept. 23
Plan every step carefully. You
cannot afford sloppy thinking
now, not if you are to move up
in the world and become the
mover and shaker you know
you can be. Think and act like a
professional.

See today’s answers at metronews.ca/answers.

Crossword: Canada Across and Down

Horoscopes

Libra

Sept. 24 - Oct. 23
Cosmic activity in the most
sensitive area of your chart
urges you to confront your
fears. You can sweep your
worries under the bed if you
want but deep down you will
know they’re still there.

Scorpio

Oct. 24 - Nov. 22
Before you commit yourself to a
new plan, you must work out
how much it is going to cost in
time, effort and money. You may
need help from family or friends.
Ask and you will receive.

Sagittarius

Nov. 23 - Dec. 21
You need to make a decision
concerning your status and
with Jupiter, your ruler, about to
be touched by the Sun you can
make it with confidence.
Whatever it is you desire, the
universe will give it to you.

Capricorn

Dec. 22 - Jan. 20
Make sure you know all the
facts about a situation, especially if it could cost you money if it
goes wrong. Once you have
signed your name, there will be
no going back.

Aquarius

Jan. 21 - Feb. 19
You may have been super confident yesterday, when the moon
was new. But like the moon,
your moods can change rapidly
and you will want to keep it
low key today.

Pisces

Feb. 20 - March 20
Those around you may be
lacking in confidence but you
aren’t and over the next 24
hours your talents will be in
demand. Dealing with others’
problems will take your mind
off your own. SALLY BROMPTON

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World Suicide
Prevention Day
September 10, 2013
Last year, more than 3,500 Canadians died
by suicide. Suicide is the second leading
cause of death among people aged 15 to 34.
The Inuit suicide rate is 11X higher than the
national average, with the majority younger
than 30.
A significant portion of those contemplating
suicide experience anxiety, depression,
hopelessness, and lack of connection.
Suicide is an issue that is still surrounded
by fear, shame and silence—but by breaking
through the barrier of stigma and openly
addressing the factors that contribute to
suicide, we can all help to prevent it.

Each year on the 10th day of September, a
commitment to saving lives brings together
communities from across Canada and
around the world.

All Canadians are encouraged to commit to
learning how to recognize the signs of suicide
(www.suicidepreventation.ca) and to light a
candle at 8:00 p.m. local time on September 10 in
tribute to the lives lost and in hope for the future.

For more information, brochures, posters and other
important tools to share with friends and colleagues,
visit the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention
at www.suicideprevention.ca and www.itk.ca.